#lunatics

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#crowd #genius #good #good sense #great

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#best #lunatics #mad #most #people

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad. ↗

— Robert McKee

#insanity #lunatics #thinking #communication

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#called #delusions #his #lunatics #philosopher

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#children #cut #his #knot #life

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. ↗

— Rebecca West

#difference #idiots #lunatics #main #men

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#children #dictatorship #easily #grown-ups #how

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

#being #changed #fans #first #going

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#accustomed #am #awake #i #i am

Fame attracts lunatics. ↗

— Elton John

#fame #lunatics